From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS HEAD fails to build on OSX 10.4 (macterm.c broken?) Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:43:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86k5re4blv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <200708291531.l7TFVnlD010335@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <86fy224aah.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <86bqcq4a4q.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <200708291604.l7TG4atk011108@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <867ine492x.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <200708291628.l7TGSvM6011975@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188852215 21444 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2007 20:43:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: merlyn@stonehenge.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, rms@gnu.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 03 22:43:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISIli-0002tp-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:43:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISIlh-00016S-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISIle-00016N-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISIld-00015u-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISIld-00015r-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts10.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.54] helo=tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISIlU-0007ch-Tp; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.144.31]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070903204318.RGMQ9197.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B9F9A857C; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:43:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat\, 01 Sep 2007 11\:13\:34 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77686 Archived-At: >> > Someone who is really familiar with multi-tty should explain why >> > preloading lisp/term/*-win.el was necessary for multi-tty. >> I don't know the reason for it but it does strike me that the probability >> that mac-win.el will be used in a Carbon build is very high (similarly for >> w32-win.el and x-win.el in their respective builds I guess). > The *-win.el files are supposed to be used _only_ for the windowed > sessions. If some build produces only a non-windowed version (like > the --without-x on Posix platforms), then the respective *-win.el > should NOT be required. Of course not. But if the build does support the Carbon|w32|X11 interface, then it makes sense to preload (mac|w32|x)-win.el even if the user will occasionally run with -nw in which case the file will not be used. Stefan